Associate Director, Creator Activation

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end influencer activation for Creo clients, from vetting and onboarding to content ideation, delivery, and post-campaign measurement, while leading a small team and guiding platform roadmap in collaboration with OM.

  • Influencer activation and partnerships: vetting, onboarding, compensation, and ongoing relationships
  • Operations and metrics: logistics planning, post-mortems, and live client escalation
  • Platform leadership: roadmap input, weekly cadence, and thought leadership to elevate Creo within OM ecosystem

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Influencer Activation: Lead influencer activation for Creo clients, including creator agreements, platform management and activation process and procedures from campaign kickoff to completion
  • Accountable for the strategic alignment and vetting of Influencers for client campaigns
  • Execute partnerships with influencers from post contract through to campaign completion
  • Ensure metrics are collected and recaps are developed post-mortem
  • Guide in planning the logistics (travel, product shipping, etc.) to Talent/influencers for campaigns
  • Accountable for executional excellence across all Creo activations, limited but not limited to creator onboarding, content ideation and delivery, reporting and live client escalation
  • Curation, outreach, compensation negotiation, and management of content development/feedback and deployment
  • Leverage OM Influencer tech platform for influencer discovery, talent vetting, client content review and ongoing performance benchmarks
  • Provide input to help guide the OM Influencer platform roadmap based on client and OM needs
  • Participate in and lead weekly team meetings
  • Maintain a constant pulse on the influencer landscape education via thought leadership communication, staying atop of shifts in the industry and emerging trends and be able to communicate the impact to client business
  • Develop thought leadership pieces & case studies to increase adoption and authority of Creo within the OM ecosystem
  • Work in partnership with OM COE platform teams and channel stakeholders to implement best practices across functions including but not limited to asset development, commerce, and measurement
  • Build and maintain relationships with creators and platform partners to identify opportunities for activating
  • Manage a team of at least 1-2 Supervisors, Sr. Specialists, and Specialists, and ensuring their professional growth within Creo
  • Help shape Creator Activation operations, providing tactical resources for team development
  • Alliances with creators and talent managers, and ongoing platform partner collaboration to maximize activations
    Requirements
    • Bachelor’s degree (Marketing/Advertising/Communications preferred)
    • 5-6 years of experience within Influencer and media environments
    • Hands on experience managing Creators within Influencer campaigns and client management with blue-chip companies
    • Experience working on client business in a variety of industries
    • Experience managing at least 2 direct reports
    • In-depth understanding and mastery of Influencer operations, Creator compensation, ability to ensure activation excellence and scalable best practices
    • Strong relationships with Influencer community space, including Creators and talent managers
    • Thorough understanding of the Influencer ad and organic roles & responsibilities across platforms including but not limited to creative development, talent perspectives, best practices, and measurement
    • Excellent relationship building with internal and external stakeholders
    • Strong communicator and presenter, able to present and articulate persuasive and cohesive presentations and points-of-view
    • Highly analytical and creative mind in strong communication skills
    • High levels of integrity, autonomy, and self-motivation
    • Strong business acumen and the ability to make highly impactful decisions in a timely manner
      Benefits
      • health insurance
      • vision insurance
      • dental insurance
      • 401(k)
      • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
      • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
      • vacation days
      • sick days
      • personal days
      • paid parental leave
      • paid medical leave
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